miniFabLab, interview with Bart Bakker: “The motors […] are individuals, tenacious individuals that want to have a Lab. They don’t bother about business plans, they want a FabLab.”

Bart Bakker has been promoting the concept of FabLab since its appearance in the Netherlands and has supported the opening of many Dutch FabLabs.

Deeply connected to ProtoSpace FabLab Utrecht, he is also board member at the Benelux FabLab Foundation.

His interest in investigating the development of low-cost equipment and small-size FabLabs led him to set the miniFabLab in his own garage in Utrecht with the motto “How to make almost any small thing”.

In his 18m² space, all the small-scale FabLab equipment is set on wheeled closets among his model railroads, and it is made available for visitors by simply moving the car outside.

We met Bart Bakker at his miniFabLab to talk with him about the role that FabLabs are playing in the digital fabrication revolution and about their possible future developments.

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